Psychology - Altered state of consciousness part 2

Hello, dear students, how are you?

And welcome back.

So this is part two of, um, altered state of

consciousness. As we said, this lesson is going to go

into two parts off course Chapter five, Section two.

Now, today, in our video, we're going to talk about

myths and facts about hypnosis.

Now, we started off in the previous video saying that

there are many people that believe in hypnosis and others

that don't people sometimes consider it as a myth.

Now, there many false believes about hypnotism.

Some of the most common myths are listed below, along

with facts.

So some of these myths are You can be hypnotized

against your will when happiness hypnotized.

You can't open your eyes.

You cannot remember your own name.

You act out scenes from childhood.

You behave in unusual ways.

You'll do anything and you go into a sleep state.

Some people believe that, but that's actually a myth.

The fact to hypnotism No one could be hypnotized unless

she is willing to, because it needs a lot of

amount of relaxation being hypnotized dolls but does not fundamentally

affect the normal functioning of the senses.

You can remember everything you normally remember, you do not

typically act out scenes at all.

You usually behave quite normally.

You're unlikely to do anything you won't normally dio and

you stay conscious and relatively alert.

Okay, so now we can see the difference between myth

and fact about hypnosis.

Now, a good question here whose ideas began the technique

of hypnosis.

Now France Messmer and again we know from from the,

you know, the people that started this belief was so

even Freud.

Now the use of hypnosis.

Why do we use it?

Well, first off is for memory.

Hypnosis is not a reliable, approached help.

People remember details of a crime.

Okay, but many psychologists argue that material recalled under hypnosis,

I should not be used as a testimony in trial.

So until now, yes.

You do recall, um, you know, information or memory or

childhood memories.

But again, they have not yet been used using it

in, um, crimes or testimony and trials.

Now, hypnosis and pain prevention is another way as well.

Hypnosis has been used to help people prevent pain.

Ah, similar effect can be achieved through the relaxation techniques

and even some breathing exercises that can help.

So again.

Hypnosis is good for memory and pain prevention.

Now hypnosis can also help in quitting bad habits.

Therapists may use post hypnotic suggestion to help people quit

a bad habit.

The therapist gives instruction during the hypnosis that the patient

is not to carry out after the session has ended

that this is bad, you shouldn't be doing it, and

it's harmful for you.

So under hypnosis, you really tend thio believe everything that

you know.

The help noticed is doing to you, Yeah, or telling

you how have the police made use of hypnosis to

jog the memories of witnesses to a crime?

But again, they don't really use it that much.

And trials now cultural diversity and psychology, multicultural perspectives of

consciousness, vision, dreams, meditation and hallucinations are important components of

many cultures, reflecting the human desire to reach beyond what

the senses can perceive directly.

Now, the methods for reaching these altered states of consciousness,

however, divers from people who inhibit in this planet Australian

use ritual songs like Dances, Stories, Dreams to create the

mhm dream time world, and the V used dancing to

create an altered state of consciousness.

They're known as whirling dervishes The Hindu yoga School uses

meditation to achieve an altered state of consciousness, and Buddhists

can achieve a state of enlightenment called Nirvana.

The Inca Alright in South America use a drug called

Yagi to induce hallucinations, and the high school Indians use

pi ot to induce hallucinations.

So see, it's different from tribe to tribe and from

country to country.

So everybody, we have reached the end of our video

for today.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Make sure you refer to this page in the U.

C. Have a lovely day and thanks for listening.

Psychology - Altered state of consciousness part 2

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